lehigh university press cranbury (23 résultats)

Hard Cover -. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a familys day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. Readers will be held in suspense as they learn about the familys battle with a variety of challenges, including a near-fatal bout with Spanish influenza, life-threatening encounters with livestock and wildlife, and disastrous episodes of fires, flooding, blizzards, and drought. The books depiction of more ordinary events is equally engaging; Ethel describes becoming a wife and raising children without the support of neighbors, women friends, or a wider family network, and David recounts growing up in a wild and remote place where there was no local school to attend. Readers from all walks of life will find Life on Muskrat Creek to be a lively and provocative book. This book tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. The interweaving of authors accounts of their experience on the Love ranch creates a unique memoir. Combining the perspectives of two genders and two generations, the book provides a portrait of ranch life in the west. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good w/ Protective Cover. First Edition. This book has clean text, solid binding, minimal corner bumping and wear. The jacket has light edgewear and has been placed in a protective plastic covering. Due to the size of this book, additional shipping may be required. A nice copy! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. 1st Thus. DJ shows wear, short tear top forecorner, top forecorners lightly bumped.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.30 X 6.40 X 1.50 inches; 550 pages; "This is the final volume in the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's work in gas theory, molecules, and thermodynamics. The papers reveal the development of his ideas and the uniqueness of his interpretation of mechanics, the necessity of a statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics, and his understanding of the dynamics of rare gases.".

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of horror, showing how women have been essential in shaping the goals and methods of the genre. Aimed at both scholarly and general readers, the chapters bring together the expertise of filmmakers, festival programmers, and scholars to argue that women have effected a reimagining of horror. To this end, the volume considers a range of historical and theoretical issues relevant to gender and the genre of horror, broadly conceived. The collection explores, for example, female-directed horror films as a distinctive enterprise, one that is potentially marked by unique cinematic techniques and topical concerns. The book also moves into a more public domain, probing how the cultural experience of horror is transformed when the genres major festivals and conventions are developed and directed by women. Together, these essays offer a wide-ranging investigation into the stakes of womens growing prominence in the horror industry. Most centrally, Bloody Women analyzes how the ethics, investments, and objectives of the genre shift when women deploy horror for their own enjoyment. Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge of contemporary horror, turning out some of its most inspired and twisted offerings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomsons The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes, and illustrations, it was recast by changing readerships, consumer fashions, and ideologies of culture. The book investigates the poems cultural afterlife by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. While the emphasis of the chapters is on printed visual culture in the form of book illustrations, the book also features discussions of paintings and other visual media such as furniture prints. Reading illustrations of iconographic moments from The Seasons as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities, the chapters contextualise the editions in light of their production and interpretive inscription. They introduce these editions publishers and designers who conceived visual translations of the text, as well as the engravers who rendered these designs in the form of the engraving plate from which the illustration could then be printed. Where relevant, the chapters introduce non-British illustrated editions to demonstrate in which ways foreign booksellers were conscious of British editions of The Seasons and negotiated their illustrative models in the sets of engraved plates they commissioned for their volumes. This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomsons The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Reading and Riding traces the foundation and development of Louis Hachette's Bibliothe`que des Chemins de Fer and its impact on the social, political, and cultural history of nineteenth-century France. Reading and Riding traces the foundation and development of Louis Hachettes Bibliothe`que des Chemins de Fer and its impact on the social, political, and cultural history of nineteenth-century France. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Queer Retrosexualities: The Politics of Reparative Return examines the retrospective logic that informs contemporary queer thinking; specifically the narrative return to the 1950s in post-1990s queer and LGBT culture in the United States. The term Queer Retrosexuality marks the intersection between retrospective thinking and queernessto illustrate not only how to queer retrospection, but also how retrospection, in some senses can be thought of as always already queer. This book examines the historical possibilities that inform the narrative return to the 1950s in queer cultural and literary productions such as Samuel Delanys The Motion of Light in Water, Todd Hayness Far from Heaven, Sarah Schulmans Shimmer, and Mark Merliss American Studiesall texts that return to a traumatic past marked by shame, exile, and persecution. Queer Retrosexualities inquires into what motivates the return in these texts to a historical moment informed by the bruises and wounds of history; but more importantly, it poses the question of how such a turn backwards could be theorized as reparative or even hopeful. This book shows how the framework of queer retrospection offers new ways of understanding history and culture, of reformulating disciplines and institutions, and of rethinking traditional modes of political activism and knowledge production. Even while it seems counterproductive to return to a historical moment that is marked by the persecution of sexual and racial minorities, the book examines how a shared feeling of relationality and community produced by the exile of shame shapes the political value of queer retrosexualities. The retrospective return to the 1950s allows queer thinking to move away from the commodification of queer culture in the present that masquerades as progress. Thus, the book theorizes how traumatic history becomes a valuable resource for the political project of assembling collective memory as the base materials for imagining a differentand more queerfuture. Queer Retrosexuality: The Politics of Reparative Return analyzes the cultural, theoretical, and political value of thinking about retrospection in conjunction with queerness. It historically grounds and exemplifies the call for a more "reparatively" informed queer theory in its contextualization of reparation through the return to the 1950s. The bo Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. The Irish artist, James Barry, is a major neoclassical artist of international significance. A keen exponent of the grand style of history painting, his work virtually disappeared from view following his death. His reputations was raised from obscurity in the 1980s by Robert R. Wark and David Solkin, but especially by William Pressleys excellent biography and catalogue raisonne. This collection of essays examines in more detail Barrys relationship with the (Royal) Society of Arts, and their encouragement of high art and the arts of design, to put into practice Barrys belief that one great maxim of moral truth, viz. that the obtaining of happiness, individual as well as public, depends upon cultivating the human faculties.By taking different aspects of Barrys mural cycle The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture that he painted for the Great Room of the (Royal) Society of Arts (1777-1801), the contributors show the wider contemporary art and design debates focusing on nationalism and improvement, publicity and patronage, thereby establishing new connections between theory (political, social, and cultural) and practice.The first half of this volume considers the development of the premiums offered by the Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the polite arts, from its initial focus on designs for manufacturers to a program that tended toward high art. Consideration is also given to the Societys encouragement of female excellence, which Barry featured in his mural series for the Society. The second half looks in more detail at Barrys The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture. Recent discoveries have shed new light on Barrys innermost thoughts and intentions, and his constant reworking of the Societys murals, illustrating the artists belief that art and artists play a fundamental role in the advancement of society.As part of the bicentenary celebrations of Barrys death, an important exhibition and international conference were held at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, in 2006. This collection of essays is a further opportunity to re-evaluate the extraordinary contribution of Barry to the eighteenth-century artistic world. It also acknowledges the work of Dr. David G. C. Allen as a writer and teacher on RSA history, as well as Barrys murals, for more than fifty years. A memorial tablet was erected in 2009 on the site of Barrys London home in Castle Street, as a further recognition of this extraordinary artist.In light of recent discoveries, and drawing heavily on the RSA archives and collections, this volume will appeal to all those interested in a detailed account of artistic development in Britain in the eighteenth century. It also contains fifty-two black-and-white illustrations. This collection examines different aspects of Barrys cycle, The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture, to place the artist's work and ideas in the context of contemporary debates about nationalism and improvement, publicity and patronage. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This book examines the life of Lady Charlotte Guest Schreiber, who provided the first complete translation of the Mabinogion and ran her late husbands ironmongery. This book examines how collecting porcelain, playing cards, and fans allowed her to create a series of private signifying systems that countered the prevailing Victorian discourse assigned to women. This book examines the life of Lady Charlotte Guest Schreiber, who provided the first complete translation of the Mabinogion and ran her late husband's ironmongery. This book examines how collecting porcelain, playing cards, and fans allowed her to create a series of private signifying systems that countered the prevailing Victorian discourse assigned to women. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Readers of Old English would generally agree that the poem Genesis B, a translation into Old English of an Old Saxon (that is, continental) retelling of the story of the Fall, is a vigorous and moving narrative. They would disagree, however, as to the meaning of the poem. Some hold that it reflects an orthodox Christian viewpoint and others claim that it assumes a distinctly unorthodox position in portraying Adam and Eve as not morally culpable in their disobedience but merely tricked into disobedience through the wiles of the Devil's agent. The study Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative, examining these incompatible readings, infers that the poem is essentially orthodox, that it demonstrates sufficiently the moral culpability of Adam and Eve, and that it departs from orthodoxy only insofar as it conveys a strong impression that Adam and Even will undertake what amounts to Christian penance, leading them eventually to Heaven. The poem thereby attains the happy ending typical of early medieval Christian narrative. Hence the titular "Comedic Imperative."The inference of orthodoxy follows as a nigh-inevitable conclusion of the interpretation of several motifs: the poem's culturally imbued martiality, its allegorical bent, and also what A. N. Doane noted as its tropological bent. The argument depends heavily upon philological inquiry and on examination of prevailing beliefs and attitudes of contemporaneous Frankish society, religious and civil, leading to the reinterpretation of crucial passages. Of these, most notably, is the passage in which Adam, in refusing the Tempter's invitation to eat the fruit, observes that the Tempter has given no tacen sign as evidence that he truly is Gods emissary. Other passages that have impeded critical perception of the poem's significance are also examined, such as the notorious micel wundor clause (lines 595-98) and the pseudo-gnomic declaration swa hire eaforan sculon after lybban (623-35). In sum, Genesis B sustains the orthodoxy otherwise of the Junius 11 manuscript. Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative argues that the Old English (from Old Saxon) poem Genesis B does not present, as some scholars assert, an unorthodox view of the Fall of Adam and Eve but that the poem reflects the comedic "happy ending" that characterizes much medieval Christian literature: the eventual attainment of Heaven. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This book links popular British fiction from the 1790s through the 1860s to anxieties about time. The cataclysm of the French Revolution, discoveries in geology, biology, and astronomy that greatly expanded the age and size of the universe, and technological developments such as the railway and the telegraph combined to transform the experience of time and dramatize its aporetic naturetime as inarticulable contradiction.Themes of usurpation, bigamy, and stolen identity that characterize popular fiction during this period reflect anxieties about inheritance. Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France characterizes English history as an unbroken and orderly chronicle of property, generations, and values, in contrast to the chaotic events taking place in France. Albright uses Burkes sure principle of transmission as the idealized, coherent view of time as narrative and argues that many popular novels of this period encode discourses on temporality in which times aporias are imaginatively reconciled through a variety of narrative strategies.Ann Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho, written during the Terror of the French Revolution, uses a past setting, descriptions of sublime and picturesque landscapes, and the heroines prolonged suspension between memory and expectation to create a dreamy temporality that offers an antidote to revolutionary fears. Charles Robert Maturins Melmoth the Wanderer employs narrative to humanize what Frank Kermode calls the disorganized time represented by the interval between tick and tock, an effort that assumes greater importance in response to industrializations dehumanizing effects. Mary Shelleys The Last Man capitalizes on the Romantic theme of lastness, weaving together memory and prophecy to attain a narrative perspective that encompasses the whole of human history. Albright concludes with a chapter on the sensation novels of the 1860s, which bring Gothic themes of usurpation from the distant past to the contemporary world of railways and divorce courts.Writing the Past, Writing the Future offers a fresh approach that focuses less on feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to Gothic and sensation fiction than on the contemporary temporal anxieties often encoded in these popular genres. While there has been some criticism that has dealt with temporal discourses within individual worksmost notably, The Last Man?there has not been a wider exploration of the topic that encompasses the period from about 1790 to 1870. Rather than attempt an exhaustive survey of a large number of novels, Albright has focused on several key texts from this period, analyzing them with the aid of the temporal meditations of Aristotle, Augustine, and Heidegger, as well as Paul Ricoeurs work on the relationship between time and narrative. This book examines discourses on temporality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular British fiction. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This book explores how the Erie Railway, in developing a series of sophisticated travel guides, made significant contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture and shaped the social life of Americans. The Erie Railway emerged during a time in which a societal response to the production of landscape paintings and prints led to a concurrent development of tourism. The era promoted a visual culture that encouraged scenic thinking in which closely viewed scenes and deep prospects became the basis for engaging physical landscapes and their representations. Revealing how visual culture apprehends aspects of reality that texts only partially grasp, the Erie guides became an important part of the commentary on the role of landscape in nineteenth-century American life. Their images and texts are worth our attention as annotations on the production of culture. This book explores the Erie Railway's contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture by promoting scenic thinking in which closely viewed scenes and deep prospects became the basis for engaging landscapes and their representations. Erie guides became commentary on landscape, with images and texts as annotations on the production of culture. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This collection of essays forms an outstanding resource about the music of the Moravians, eighteenth-century America in general, and the organ-building trade. The bibliography includes additional related resources on American Moravian organs. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Chinese Christian women before 1919 have been largely invisible in the records of China missions and Chinese Christianity. With few exceptions we have known little about them either as individuals or as a group. In this volume the contributors goal is to bring to light the life and work of these pioneer Chinese Christian women. The contributors have scoured a variety of sources in order to recreate the role of early Chinese women Christians in the church and in Chinese society and also to illustrate how gender affected their under-standing of Christianity and their career choices. How did the Chinese context alter their relations with the church and with both Christian and non-Christian communities? What was the legacy of pioneer Chinese Christian women?To provide context for this study, the work opens with an essay on women in imperial China, examining the ideal, the stereotypes, and the reality. Essays on Chinese Christian educators, doctors, nurses, and evangelists indicate the role of the missionaries and the church in making mobility and broadened horizons possible for women. They reveal also the contributions of these women and homemakers to a changing China.Chinese women before 1919, though a minority of church membership, were in many ways the mainstay of the church: the most faithful in attendance at worship services and Mass, responsible for teaching Sunday School, leading the choir, and organizing Bible study classes. They visited the sick, engaged in charity work, prepared the altar for services, and performed various other services. Many women followed their husbands in joining the church, but Roman Catholic Virgins, Protestant Bible women, and church workers were primarily responsible for evangelizing among women and children since Western male missionaries found it almost impossible to proselytize among women in Chinese society. Missionaries soon realized that establishing Chinese Christian families was essential to the stability and continuity of congregations, and Christian wives and mothers were vital to creating Christian homes and rearing children in the faith. Particularly during periods of persecution, such as the years from 1724 to 1846 and the recent era of the Anti-Rightist Campaigns and the Cultural Revolution, the Catholic Virgins and Christian families can be credited with the survival of Chinese Christianity. With liberalization during the 1980s many of these Christian families emerged as the basis for a growing Chinese church.The Christian church and Christian missions provided avenues for womens social mobility as well. Missionary wives founded girls schools and eventually most central stations included a primary and secondary school for girls. Virgins and Bible women memorized or learned to read religious texts. Thus, a significant proportion of female converts attained literacy and, with this, new self-esteem. The first women's colleges prepared women for new careers and economic independence, while the establishment of hospitals opened up careers for women as doctors and nurses. This collection reveals the life and work of pioneer Chinese Christian women, who have until now been largely invisible. The essays illustrate how gender affected their understanding of Christianity and career choices. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Dolls and puppets can be viewed as the Freudian Uncanny, the Lacanian Other, the Kristevan Abject, and The Miniature and The Gigantic of Susan Stewart. The psychological implications of their creation are traced through several centuries of literature, primarily British fiction and poetry from the latter half of the eighteenth century to the present, plus some examples from American and Continental fiction. Dolls and puppets can be viewed as the Freudian Uncanny, the Lacanian Other, the Kristevan Abject, and The Miniature and The Gigantic of Susan Stewart. The psychological implications of their creation are traced through several centuries of literature, primarily British fiction and poetry from the latter half of the eighteenth century to the present, plus some examples from American and Continental fiction. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes, and illustrations, it was recast by changing readerships, consumer fashions, and ideologies of culture. The book investigates the poem's cultural afterlife by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. While the emphasis of the chapters is on printed visual culture in the form of book illustrations, the book also features discussions of paintings and other visual media such as furniture prints. Reading illustrations of iconographic moments from The Seasons as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities, the chapters contextualise the editions in light of their production and interpretive inscription. They introduce these editions' publishers and designers who conceived visual translations of the text, as well as the engravers who rendered these designs in the form of the engraving plate from which the illustration could then be printed. Where relevant, the chapters introduce non-British illustrated editions to demonstrate in which ways foreign booksellers were conscious of British editions of The Seasons and negotiated their illustrative models in the sets of engraved plates they commissioned for their volumes. This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. The book deals with five European film directors who were forced to remain in exile in the wake of the rise of Hitler and who subsequently enriched the American motion picture industry with a reservoir of new talent that had been nurtured in Europe. The directors treated are Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder. The book deals with five European film directors who were forced to remain in exile in the wake of the rise of Hitler and who subsequently enriched the American motion picture industry with a reservoir of new talent that had been nurtured in Europe. The directors treated are Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This book explores the adaptations by filmmakers of existing occult religions as framing devices for their work. It also discusses the cultural implications of these films, both as flash points in the national discourse on religion and as springboards for social criticism. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evenings entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatres daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each components entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim.The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasonss offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of special Irish interest. The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted.Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important minors. This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories. This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evenings entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatres daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each components entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim.The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasonss offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of special Irish interest. The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted.Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important minors. This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories. This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evenings entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatres daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each components entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim.The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasonss offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of special Irish interest. The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted.Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important minors. This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories. This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Benjamin Peirce gained international prominence in nineteenth-century American science from his work on the perturbations of Neptune. He played an important role in the education of many American scientists. The intellectual tradition in Peirce's family is apparent from his feminist mother and scholarly father and climaxes in Peirce's son, Charles, perhaps the most exceptional mind the United States has yet produced. Benjamin Peirce gained international prominence in nineteenth-century American science from his work on the perturbations of Neptune. He played an important role in the education of many American scientists. The intellectual tradition in Peirce's family is apparent from his feminist mother and scholarly father and climaxes in Peirce's son, Charles, perhaps the most exceptional mind the United States has yet produced. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.